Word: aires
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94 and is composed almost entirely of doctors and nurses from Greater Boston. Their enlisted personnel was assigned from the British forces when the Unit arrived overseas in May, 1915. The Unit established Base Hospital No. 22 at Camler, France, where the members experienced two air raids from German combing planes which, on one occasion, crocked a hospital across the street...
...future. Perhaps it will not be many years before we see regular aero passenger lines running between the big centres of industry throughout the country. Already a limited mail service has been established. In a short time the Atlantic Ocean will undoubtedly be crossed by a heavier-than-air machine. All kinds of possible uses of the airplane suggest themselves...
During the War Professor Sabine, who was in Europe for more than a year beginning with the summer of 1916, made an especial study of problems in aviation, and on his return to this country he was at once taken into the most intimate counsels of the Air Service at Washington. Almost every week until the signing of the armistice he spent at least two or three days in the Government service travelling back and forth between Cambridge and Washington constantly. Frequently he hoped for a respite, but inevitably a telegram would summon him from Cambridge after he had been...
...believed that influenza is conveyed from person to person through the air common to the respiration of both parties. Simply standing near a person who has influenza while he talks to you is dangerous, and that danger is markedly increased if during the conversation he sneezes or coughs. Sneezing and coughing, and only to a lesser degree talking, convey from the mouth of the infected person minute particles of moisture laden with disease germs which float about in the air and presently you breathe. It may, therefore, readily be appreciated why during an epidemic, it is wise to avoid crowded...
...national army of the United States receive one dollar a day as pay, in addition to being completely found by the government. Considering what the modern soldier has to do and bear in trench warfare, in bayonet and hand grenade assaults and in storming towns and cities from the air, the idea of a man's doing it for pay is absolutely revolting. No worthy soldier does it or would do it for pay. He does and endures the horrible things required of him from a sense of duty to country, home, friends, and the coming generation...